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Singer Rob Reider had no clue that his career would be heading down a different runway after the Bob Braun Show did a remote telecast from the Dayton Air Show in 1978.

Later that year, Reider attended a Lunken Airport air show with fellow amateur ("ham") radio operators when the organizers needed an announcer for the air show.

They asked Reider to do it — and that was the first of more than 320 air shows he’s logged in his second career, from which he’ll retire in November.

“It’s time,” says Reider, 75.

Reider is best known in Greater Cincinnati as a regional Emmy-winning Braun Show cast member from 1970 to 1983 along with singers Nancy James, Gwen Conley, Marian Spelman, Randy Weidner and Colleen Sharp.

On the nation’s air show circuit, he’s known as an authoritative and entertaining aviation expert describing the aircraft acrobatics flying overhead.

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